Update: The Navy has reversed itself, for now, on this issue, pending a legal review.
When the Massachusetts Supreme Court imposed same-sex marriage on that state in 2003, leftist groups around the country rejoiced in the so-called “equality” that had been extended to men who wanted to marry men and women who wanted to marry women. This same excitement resulted from the legalization of such unions in other states and districts as well: Connecticut in 2008, Iowa in April 2009, Vermont in September 2009, New Hampshire in January 2010, and Washington D.C. in March 2010.
Yet in all these examples, the propensity of leftist groups to constantly push for more soon proved predominate and the initial excitement over “equality” gave way to demands that other states honor the marriage licenses of same-sex couples from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire, and the District of Columbia, even though the overwhelming majority of states in the United States don’t recognize such unions as legal.
Fortunately, instead of rousing up support for same-sex marriage, the tactics of the left aroused a grassroots backlash that saw approximately 40 states across the country move to protect marriage within their borders. (Think about it: even California opted to protect marriage in 2008.)
So what now? Well, at this point, it appears the left has cast their lot with the military: hoping the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) will create of a tide of same-sex momentum that mere civilians will not be able to resist. (Which explains why the openly pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign is pressuring the Obama administration and the Pentagon to “move expeditiously” in transforming the military from a DADT mentality to a post-DADT one.)
And as if on cue, the Navy just announced that it will allow its chaplains to officiate same-sex marriages on military bases if those bases are located in a state that has legalized such unions.
Honestly folks, it’s almost as if the left realized they were getting no where fast with the 50 actual states in the Union (apart from the handful listed above) so they found a 51st state – the U.S. Navy – which they could exploit for their own purposes.
And we know how they’re going to play this don’t we? Via the precedent set in Massachusetts and elsewhere, the left will hold a few ceremonies with willing Naval chaplains and then, when the “newlywed” same-sex couples are state-side, they will purposefully use shame-filled questions like: “Who wants to deny our fighting men and women their equal rights after all they’ve sacrificed for this country?”
Proof that this is their intention can be seen from the fact that they’re using these tactics of shame on other members of the military even now. For instance, consider what they’re doing to our Marines in anticipation of a post-DADT military: they are trying to re-program their thought processes so that they won’t be offended if they see two Marines of the same sex “kind of petting each other, putting their arms around each other, [or] kissing each other” in a mall or other public place.
The bottom line is that our military, particularly the Navy, has become a testing ground for social re-construction whereby societal (and ethical) norms are being dismissed as nothing more than vestiges of a Victorian age gone by. In fact, our military personnel are being inundated with the belief that such change is as necessary for homosexuals in the 21st century as it was for slaves in the 19th and oppressed Southern blacks in the 20th.
The left has found it’s 51st state, and it’s hedging a bet that this one will force the hand of the other 50.
Let us hope they’ve overplayed their hand.
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